Weirdfiction Stories

A dying town launches a rebranding campaign that no one seems to be running. The billboards appear overnight. The slogans don't explain themselves. A diner waitress says nobody puts them up, and nobody takes them down. A couple arrives expecting ironic tourism and finds something closer to a live experiment. Beauchêne doesn't ask visitors to believe anything. It only asks them to stay. To notice. To participate. What begins as small-town decay becomes a slow, sideways unraveling... murals that feel instructional, civic programs that behave like dares, and a town that seems increasingly aware of the people passing through it. A surreal, slow-burn satire about American decline, anti-branding, and the strange comfort of entropy. Meaning doesn't collapse here. It rebrands. Entropy is a vibe. Decline tastes like caramel. Welcome to Beauchêne. You're here now.

No one notices when it starts. That's the point. This isn't a story about monsters, ghosts, or violence. It's about attention - and what happens when it becomes unnecessary. Each chapter changes something small. Not in the world. In you. There is no twist. There is no explanation. And nothing here needs to be watched to continue. You don't have to keep reading. But most people do.

Ever since the silence began, the world has been wrong. People lose whole days-forgotten, erased- as if their emotions are being swallowed by something unseen. Joy. Fear. Pain. All of it... fading. But Jiwoo hears what no one else can: Emotions making noise. A trembling echo when fear rises, a sharp crack when anger shatters, a low hum when grief tries to breathe. And when the seventh tone awakens inside her skull, the lights flicker- time stutters- and a voice whispers from the empty air: "Hear the seventh tone." Something is breaking. Something is calling. And Jiwoo is the only one who can hear it.

Doctor Stephen Strange is in the middle of a very serious, very mystical crisis... right up until reality glitches green and he face-plants into a cluttered garage owned by a drunk mad scientist and his anxious grandson. Rick Sanchez's portal gun has picked up interference from something bigger than him for once: a cosmic "Aggregator" that treats entire universes like binge able shows, cancelling the weird ones and standardizing everything into one safe, marketable canon. Strange wants to protect the fabric of reality. Rick wants to break anything that tries to manage his fun. Morty just wants to not die ironically. Thrown together, the Sorcerer Supreme and the worst grandpa in the multiverse have to infiltrate a meta-reality control centre, fight glitchy "moderators", and send a universe-eating algorithm into chaos-all before their own worlds get rebooted into something boring. Fast-paced, weird, and meta as hell, "Strange Bugs in the Multiverse" mashes up magic, sci-fi, and fourth-wall nerves in one wild crossover adventure.

What if luck wasn't a blessing but a curse that isolates you from everything you truly value? Edward "Luckless" Lockless has spent decades as the university's janitor, beloved by everyone despite his legendary bad luck. When colleagues surprise him with an expensive metal detector for his birthday as an ironic joke he laughs. But finding a mysterious carved meteorite changes everything. Suddenly, Edward's luck transforms dramatically-money flows, opportunities appear, and he acquires wealth beyond his wildest dreams. Yet with each stroke of fortune, he loses something far more precious: the genuine connections and love that once made his life meaningful. As his former best friend Professor Taho Stormluck becomes obsessed with claiming the artifact as rightfully belonging to his people, Edward must confront a terrible truth-some gifts come with a price too heavy to bear. An exploration of fate, friendship, and the true nature of fortune that asks: Is it better to be burdened by luck?

In the 1990s, a school district conducted illegal experiments on its students and unleashed an incomprehensible horror.

Merl is a pipe-smoking, Dickens-loving, overweight academic who just wants to be left alone to read in peace. But when a slow-moving, feces-spawning pandemic wipes out most of humanity and culminates in a full-on zombie apocalypse, Merl has no choice but to rise from his velvet settee, grab his trusty sledgehammer, and defend what remains of his quiet, tweed-coated life. Told in Merl's hilariously rambling voice, this short story is a mashup of zombie horror, literary satire, and unapologetic absurdity. Think Shaun of the Dead meets A Tale of Two Cities-with more gray turds and fewer surviving neighbors. A 5,000-word dark comedy about survival, solitude, and smashing the undead.

«Qatnab sits on her throne of books, guarding the last threads of reason. Somewhere beyond the shelves, a single Hen mocks the universe's logic - laying paradoxes instead of eggs, poisoning every truth it touches. Qatnab hunts it through stories, through dreams, through cracks in the world - the cosmic librarian against the living contradiction. A surreal flash-fiction experiment: absurd, darkly funny, and sharp enough to slice your comfort zone. Read carefully. The Hen is still loose.»

We constantly take and take and take and take, but what have we to give? Cain Newport finds out the hard way. Inspired by Kwakwakaʼwakw mythology I have no affiliation with the First Nations nor have I consulted with them in the creation of this story. Word Count: 1,859

West and East must unite in a battle spanning millennia, one which will determine the fate of the human race. Contains many internal references that (hopefully) no one will understand. Word Count: 3,461

A haywire satellite signals the end of the world. Inspired by Wendigoon's Conspiracy Theory Iceberg series Word Count: 1,295

A collection of flash fiction works. Each story is a stand-alone, unrelated to the next and always less than 1000 words. A mixture of genres, but most works contain speculative elements. Some stories may contain swearing or mentions of blood/violence - stories containing any triggering themes will have appropriate warnings. ©Hannah Clare 2019

Welcome to Fox's Astral Horrors! Where cosmic horror, dark fantasy, and speculative fiction intertwine. Here, we explore eerie mysteries and unearthly adventures through flash fiction, writing prompts, and short stories.

16-year-old Angela Hawkswell works and lives as an acrobat in one of the most successful attractions in Sunspot, Ohio -- Ms. Maisy's Marvelous Wonders. Her boss, Ms. Maisy, is more than a boss, but also a kind woman that Angela looked up to as a mother. One day, when Ms. Maisy didn't come to work, Angela visited her home only to find her dead, along with a book of strange writings and drawings of creatures. Now, with the help of her little-more-than-best-friend, Wendy, Angela is determined to figure out why Ms. Maisy died before the circus is shut down and they are separated from it forever. -- This is a work in progress result of a Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplay that I play by myself (I'm Keeper and the player). I use various tools and tables to randomize events, clues, characters, etc. Do not expect this to be a coherent story. There will be plot holes and threads that are never touched on again. There will be inconsistencies. This isn't supposed to be the next And Then There Were None or The Dunwich Horror -- it's all just good fun!

During the years following the Great Darkness of 1999, an infamous serial killer stalks a strange and twisted American landscape. The Family Man, using the bones of his slaughtered family as instruments of murder, offers up his victims as macabre works of art, unlocking the secrets between death and dreams. Yet his red quest soon finds him caught up in something much darker-something that will not only lead him to the wicked truths of his past, but to the mysteries of a world descended into madness. For the Shepherd begs of him the question-are you a lamb, or a Wolf?

A collection of short stories that take place in the "Of ???" universe, a place where we have ventured deep into the stars and found more than we anticipated. (These stories are connected to "The Edge". Cross posted from singlequantumevent.com)

The island- a weird sci-fi story

Book 4 of the series Tales of Strangeness and Charm An attempted murder and a hut in the sky lead the party northwards with giants on their heels. Getting lost among the toadstools of their own minds is all they need. At the edge of the abyss rampaging nibblins ride hill oaves defending the endless rock pillars that lead to Blackwood - The Forbidden Forest, as the children say. Follow this story: For epic battles of land and sky This is the kind of tale where not even a dead badger or a lack of underwear hinders the proceedings Because sometimes a shed is not just a shed What happens when you enter a shack on a rock made of timber from Blackwood? A renling is accused of bird crimes and a monkey flings what monkeys fling best Because we finally get to find where North is Sometimes a wind-blown map with a hole scorched in it flapping in a knohm's face actually works. But did nibblins really do that?

Welcome Creatures, These stories aren't alone - and neither are you when you read them. Surreal Short Stories is a collection of standalone tales filled with oddities, eerie metaphors, twisted characters, and dreamlike dread. From quiet horror to absurdist epiphanies, these stories are perfect for escaping the mundane and questioning everything. Tales that feel like forgotten dreams. Plots that never behave. Characters that whisper back. Sit up & Engage. Until next time, Creatures!